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An Assembly Such as This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman - Community Reviews back

by Pamela Aidan
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Betsy Reads Books
Betsy Reads Books rated it 17 years ago
I was a little disappointed with this book. It painted a picture of Darcy that was somehow different than the one I got from reading Pride and Prejudice. I also thought this book was a little boring and the biggest disappointment of all was that after reading the inner thoughts of Darcy and having...
What I'm reading
What I'm reading rated it 17 years ago
First book of the retelling of Pride and Prejudice from Darcy pov. It's not bad. Much better than the previous retelling I read last year. It opens with the dance at the assembly hall and ends in London with Darcy having convinced Bingley that Jane might not be the best choice and leaving for Pember...
Kiwiria
Kiwiria rated it 18 years ago
I tried to read it, but it just did NOT catch my fancy at all. Why is it that some fanfiction gets published, when other - sometimes better - fanfiction gets ridiculed or merely viewed as "a nice hobby"? A matter of being at the right place at the right time I guess.Anyway, I don't know that it is b...
Miss Clark
Miss Clark rated it 19 years ago
This 1st volume in Pamela Aidan's fresh and entertaining trilogy that tells the story of Pride and Prejudice though the eyes of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentlemen, is enjoyable. The new characters that she creates, like Darcy's Shakespeare-quoting valet Fletcher, who is probably my favorite character of t...
The Moth Eaten Shelf
The Moth Eaten Shelf rated it 20 years ago
I found that these three books are the best 'Darcy POV' works to date and glad to see that a larger publisher has picked them up. I wonder what the men of Austen's time would have thought of this characterization of Darcy; would they have considered it an accurate portrayal of their class? That lead...
Emily S
Emily S rated it 56 years ago
And in the end, I just couldn't do it. I might try it again at some point, which it why it's ended up on the 'started but did not finish shelf'.
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